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• Super Bowl champion Justin Reid parades through Ascension Parish

  18-03-2023 18:14
  
  ASCENSION PARISH - Super Bowl Champion and Prairieville native Justin Reid paraded down the streets of Ascension Parish for his friends and family at Dutchtown High School.“Justin loves his hometown, loves his school and it was like without a doubt he was coming home to celebrate with his hometown family,” his mother Sharon Guillory-Reid said.In February, Reid captured his first Super Bowl ring as a key contributor for the Kansas City Chiefs in their win over the Philadelphi
  
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• Freshman Jared Jones 7 RBI's leads No. 1 LSU to a 12-7 win over Texas A&M in game 2

  18-03-2023 18:04
  
  COLLEGE STATION - The no. 1 LSU baseball team wins their 13th straight game, beating Texas A&M 12-7 in game 2. Freshman Jared Jones was red hot at the plate, having 3 hits, 1 home run and 7 RBI's.Tommy White was also crushing balls at the plate, having 3 hits and 3 RBI's. Ty Floyd had a rocky start on the mound, pitching 3.1 innings, giving up 3 earned runs. Garrett Edwards got the win in relief for the Tigers. That's his 3rd of the season.The Tigers will look to complete the sweep against
  
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• Michigan-LSU clash means Kim vs. Kim III in March Madness

  18-03-2023 17:47
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Kim Mulkey’s admiration for the effort that Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico extracts from her players was encapsulated in short a video clip that Mulkey thought the Tigers needed to see.Michigan guard Leigha Brown’s diving attempt to corral a loose ball on the hardwood in the Wolverines’ first-round women’s NCAA Tournament triumph over UNLV meant nothing on the stat sheet; Brown wasn’
  
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• Dr. Hypolite Landry, former EBR coroner and record-setting pilot, dies at 96

  18-03-2023 15:59
  
  BATON ROUGE - Former East Baton Rouge coroner and record-setting pilot Dr. Hypolite Landry died Saturday morning. He was 96.Family members tell WBRZ that Landry, who had been sick, passed away in his sleep.Landry served as coroner for 26 years, from 1972 to 1998. He spearheaded the creation of new services for people with drug and alcohol addiction, rape victims and children who had been abused. He also started the planning that led to the coroner's office having its own morgue.The Baton Rouge
  
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• Leprechauns spotted in Baton Rouge along Wearin' of the Green parade route

  18-03-2023 13:48
  
  BATON ROUGE- Nearly 100 floats and dozens of marching groups made their way through the Hundred Oaks neighborhood Saturday morning during the 38th annual Wearin' of the Green parade. "We are having fun all day, the party is just starting," paradegoer Stephanie Foster said.Hail fell about an hour before the parade, but the dreary weather did not stop thousands of people from coming out."It's perfect, every day in Louisiana is perfect!," one man said.The St. Patrick's Day parade attracte
  
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• Trump says he expects to be arrested, calls for protest

  18-03-2023 08:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that his arrest was imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.Despite no evidence that Manhattan prosecutors have given any official notice to him or his lawyers, Trump declared in a post on his social media platform that he expected to be taken into custody on Tuesday. The message seem
  
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• Trump expects to be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges

  18-03-2023 08:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Trump provided no evidence that suggested he was directly informed of a pending arrest and did not say how he knew of such plans.But in a Saturday morning message on his Truth Social network, Trump noted “illegal leaks” from the
  
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